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...President Clinton signed a top-secret order, approved by the congressional intelligence committees, that authorized the CIA to begin covert operations to break up bin Laden's terror network. The agency's counter-terrorism center ... had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated 'link analysis' programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters ... In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign...
...will receive nothing from us but coffin after coffin." Masked militant, said by the cia to be Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in a videotape showing the beheading of American Nicholas Berg in Iraq...
...should have been a simple matter of Clinton's telling the CIA director to find bin Laden and shoot the so-and-so. But government officials got caught up in legalities. That's what happens when lawyers monkey around with policy. TERRY REDFEAR Greensboro...
Your article "Did Clinton Do Enough?" [April 26] described what Bill Clinton's Administration did to stop Osama bin Laden. The Republican Party would have vilified any action Clinton took that ended in the death of bin Laden. The Republicans would have jumped on Clinton's acts as proof that he was engaged in something wrong or illegal. Did Clinton do enough? Who knows? But had the CIA assassinated bin Laden on presidential orders, Clinton would have been roasted. CAROLE SHUMWAY Seattle...
...Miramax camp scoffs at that claim, pointing out that Disney's radio arm has no compunction about distributing fire-breathing conservative Sean Hannity's show. The film has been described as an incendiary attack on the Bush family's ties to Saudi Arabian oil money and the Osama bin Laden clan. But a source who has seen the picture tells TIME that the Bush-Saudi elements make up only about 15 minutes of the roughly 110-minute film...